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[The images are book covers for each of the titles mentioned below and are described in more detail within the blog post on our site here http://richincolor.com/2023/04/muslim-voices-3/]

Muslim Voices 2023

Ramadan is a great time to pick up a book by a Muslim author. If you're on Twitter and/or Instagram, a few hashtags to watch for are #ramadanreads, #ramadanreadathon, and #muslimshelfspace. I'm including a video about the origin of #muslimshelfspace. That hashtag was instrumental in helping me find, read, and share titles by Muslim authors back in 2017.

If you would like to read books by Muslim authors during Ramadan or anytime this year, here are a few we'd recommend.

Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers [Audrey's Review]

13 points noun: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change

When Najwa Bakri walks into her first Scrabble competition since her best friend’s death, it’s with the intention to heal and move on with her life. Perhaps it wasn’t the best idea to choose the very same competition where said best friend, Trina Low, died. It might be even though Najwa’s trying to change, she’s not ready to give up Trina just yet.

But the same can’t be said for all the other competitors. With Trina, the Scrabble Queen herself, gone, the throne is empty, and her friends are eager to be the next reigning champion. All’s fair in love and Scrabble, but all bets are off when Trina’s formerly inactive Instagram starts posting again, with cryptic messages suggesting that maybe Trina’s death wasn’t as straightforward as everyone thought. And maybe someone at the competition had something to do with it.

As secrets are revealed and the true colors of her friends are shown, it’s up to Najwa to find out who’s behind these mysterious posts—not just to save Trina’s memory, but to save herself.

Love from Mecca to Medina (and Love from A to Z) by S.K. Ali Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart.

Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the Hijra, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina, and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable.

Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia. Adam is thrilled; it’s the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray for a hijra in real life: to migrate to Zayneb in Chicago. Zayneb balks at the trip at first, having envisioned another kind of vacation, but then decides a spiritual reset is calling her name too. And they can’t wait to see each other—surely, this is just what they both need.

But the trip is nothing like what they expect, from the appearance of Adam’s former love interest in their traveling group to the anxiety gripping Zayneb when she’s supposed to be “spiritual.” As one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder: was their meeting just an oddity after all? Or can their love transcend everything else like the greatest marvels of the world?

Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi Feiwel and Friends [Crystal's review]

Jerusalem, 1192. The Third Crusade rages on. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy Land, but now that the Faranji invaders have gotten reinforcements from Richard the Lionheart, all she wants to do is get herself and her sister home alive.

But Zeena, a soldier of honor at heart, refuses to give up the fight while Jerusalem remains in danger of falling back into the hands of the false Queen Isabella. And so, Rahma has no choice but to take on one final mission with her sister.

On their journey to Jerusalem, Rahma and Zeena come across a motley collection of fellow travelers―including a softspoken Mongolian warrior, an eccentric Andalusian scientist, a frustratingly handsome spy with a connection to Rahma’s childhood, and an unfortunate English chaplain abandoned behind enemy lines. The teens all find solace, purpose and camaraderie―as well as a healthy bit of mischief―in each other’s company.

But their travels soon bring them into the orbit of Queen Isabella herself, whose plans to re-seize power in Jerusalem would only guarantee further war and strife in the Holy Land for years to come. And so it falls to the merry band of misfits to use every scrap of cunning and wit (and not a small amount of thievery) to foil the usurper queen and perhaps finally restore peace to the land.

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir Razorbill

Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.

Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding.

Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him—and Juniper—forever.

When Sal’s attempts to save the motel spiral out of control, he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth—and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst.

From one of today’s most cherished and bestselling young adult authors comes a breathtaking novel of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness—one that’s both tragic and poignant in its tender ferocity.

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Dr. Yusef Salaam with illustrations by Omar T. Pasha -- Balzer + Bray [Our group discussion] [Interview with authors]

The story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day I was born

Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white.

The story that I think will be my life starts today

Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it?

With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.

If you have titles to add, please let us know in the comments.

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Repressed by male guardianship, women in Qatar flee in search of freedom and safety

Qatari women need a man's permission to travel and go to medical appointments, and are still unprotected by the country's laws

Article published in December 15th, 2022

Translated from Portuguese to English

Portal R7

https://noticias.r7.com/internacional/reprimidas-por-tutela-masculina-mulheres-no-catar-fogem-em-busca-de-liberdade-e-seguranca-15122022/

Qatari women pose for a photo in Doha

The gender inequality in Qatar, highlighted by the FIFA World Cup in the country, exposes the differences between the lives of men and women. Women are prevented from making important decisions about their own lives due to a system of male guardianship.

On the fringes of society, they must show permission from their husband or father to travel abroad until the age of 25, get married, access reproductive health services, and even basic care.

According to the director of Human Rights Watch in Brazil, Maria Laura Canineu, “many women say this issue greatly affects their lives and mental health. There are many cases of women with depression and suicidal thoughts.”

The radicalisation they are exposed to is related to the interpretation of Sharia (Islamic law derived from religious guidance), the main source of the country's Constitution.                                 

Manuel Furriela, a professor of International Relations at FMU (Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas), explains the importance of emphasising that "not necessarily what is in religious precepts has the same intention. Laws are subject to interpretations, which can be varied."

Where is Noof al-Maadeed?

Noof al-Maadeed, 24, fled Qatar and claimed to have suffered attacks from her family

The Qatari young woman, Noof al-Maadeed, became well-known after deciding to flee the country to try and start a new life in London, England, and documenting her journey on social media. She claimed that had to leave Qatar because she suffered abuse and murder attempts from her family.                                                                                                                                                      Al-Maadeed caused concern when she disappeared from social media in October 2021 upon returning to Qatar. Speculations began to arise about the conditions of the young woman, with many people suggesting that she might have been murdered.

Human rights organisations started to pressure Qatar, and the hashtag #whereisNoof began to circulate until the young woman reappeared on Twitter in January of this year.           

“I’m fine, I’m healthy and safe. This video is to reassure all those who showed their support," she posted.

She didn’t give explanations for her absence and said that created a new Twitter account after losing the password for the previous one, where she had over 16 thousand followers. Currently, Noof has returned to the original profile, but has stopped making constant posts.

"Qatar has greatly developed its capacity for online surveillance of people in recent years," says the director of Human Rights Watch.

"In the country, there is no law that protects women from domestic violence," she explains. "Many women who want to escape an abusive relationship risk being returned to their families and imprisoned. We have also seen cases of victims sent to psychiatric hospitals."

The specialist affirms that it is very difficult to question the country's rules because there is no freedom of expression for that. Therefore, the pressure from the international community becomes crucial.

Escape plan during family trip

Aisha al-Qahtani fled Qatar in search of freedom

Aisha al-Qahtani decided to leave Qatar to escape the oppressions experienced in the country. The young woman also fled to London in December 2019 during a trip with her family to Kuwait.

Qatar is the only country in the Gulf Cooperation Council that still requires women under 25 to have a man's permission to travel abroad.                                                                              

"It was like I needed someone to pinch me because I couldn't believe I was really escaping,’" said Al-Qahtani in an interview to the program 60 Minutes Australia.

"I told myself that if I were a blonde, blue-eyed girl, my family would just say 'have a good trip,'" she added.

For Maria Laura Canineu, the FIFA World Cup “didn’t do much” for women's rights in Qatar. "The system of male guardianship will not end unless there is a global will to pressure the country in a way that it starts to rethink its practices."

Sexual Violence  

The director of Human Rights Watch emphasises the risks of sexual violence are exacerbated during major events. The situation becomes even more serious in a country where victims are unprotected by the law.

She states that Qatar's legislation does not respect the guidelines of the United Nations International Community, and breaks the commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which prioritises the dignity of individuals.

"Women who report sexual violence in the country risk being prosecuted because Qatar's penal code criminalises sexual relations outside of marriage," she explains.

"If the aggressor claims that the relationship was consensual, a married woman risks being charged with the offence, which is one of the heaviest in terms of penalty, with almost seven years of imprisonment".

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[creepingsharia]

Joe Biden’s Biggest Fundraisers are Tied to Islamic Terrorists

The Iran Lobby, the Pakistan Lobby, and the Muslim Brotherhood are funding Biden.

by Daniel Greenfield

Joe Biden had spent the entire election hiding the names of his bundlers, the big money fundraisers who fueled his campaign, until releasing them right before Election Day.

What did he have to hide?

The list of bundlers who managed to raise at least $100,000 for Biden includes some of the usual Democrat politicians and big party donors, along with some other names.

Like that of Jamal Abdi.

Abdi is the executive director of NIAC Action and the former policy director of the National Iranian American Council, often referred to as the Iran Lobby.

NIAC Action is the lobbying arm of NIAC and despite claiming to represent the Persian diaspora in America, Iranian-Americans have accused it of echoing the talking points of Iran’s regime. Members of the democratic opposition to the Islamist regime have even helped spread the #niaclobbies4mullahs hashtag across Twitter which was tweeted as much as 300,000 times.

“The NIAC pretends to support the interests of Iranians who reside in the US but, in practice, it aims to protect the interests of the Islamic Republic,” Shervan Fashandi, a member of the opposition to the regime, has said.

Earlier this year, Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Tom Cotton had sent a letter to the Justice Department urging an investigation of NIAC and NIAC Action for violating FARA by lobbying for a foreign country without officially registering as foreign agents. The letter noted that "NIAC's relationship with the Iranian regime and its role amplifying regime propaganda in the United States have been the subject of discussion in Washington D.C. for years."

Iran is an Islamic terror state responsible for the murder of Americans around the world.

Joe Biden is no stranger to the Iran Lobby. He had celebrated the Islamic takeover of Iran. During the Iran Hostage Crisis, opposed the rescue of American hostages, and called for an end to pro-democracy broadcasts into Iran and for admitting the terror state into the WTO.

Early in the century, he had also raised sizable amounts of money and headlined an event for the American Iranian Council whose founder had run for the presidency of Iran.

After September 11, Biden suggested, “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”

In 2007, Biden warned that if President Bush took action to stop Iran, he would impeach him.

A year later, he told Israelis that they would have to accept Iran’s nuclear program.

A spokesman for the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran warned that Biden's campaigns "have been financed by Islamic charities of the Iranian regime based in California."

Now, as America struggled with the pandemic, Biden hurried to propose a plan, not to help Americans, but to help Iran, to “streamline channels for banking” and weaken US sanctions.

NIAC Action endorsed Biden and appears to have raised a lot of money for him. What does NIAC expect in return? In its official endorsement, NIAC claimed that Biden had made an "ironclad commitment" to return to the Iran Deal. That would allow Iran to continue developing its nuclear program and provide it with an ongoing cash flow for international terrorism.

An article co-written by Abdi, one of Biden's biggest fundraisers, warned that "the U.S. has less leverage to secure concessions from Tehran given its own diminished credibility and Iran’s increasing nuclear leverage".

All of this comes as the FBI noted that Iranian hackers were targeting government websites in “an intentional effort to influence and interfere with the 2020 U.S. presidential election.”

Its hackers also sent threatening fake "Pro-Trump" emails to voters in Florida, among other states, warning, "You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you."

The move was transparently meant by the Iranians to aid the Biden-Harris campaign.

Had President Trump been the beneficiary of $100,000 or more in cash, a turnout operation, hacking attacks, and other forms of election interference from the networks around an enemy state, we would be hearing about it. Since all this is benefiting Biden, the story is being buried.

But Abdi isn’t the only troubling name on the list of Biden’s biggest bundlers.

One of them is Ijaz Ahmad.

Ahmad is the head of the American-Pakistani Political Action Committee (APPAC) who had boasted of being recognized by Pakistan's foreign ministry as the "true face of Pakistan".

APPAC is militantly opposed to India's attempts to stop Pakistani terrorism and Biden has been happy to pander to it, attacking India and expressing support for Islamic claims to Kashmir.

“We warmly welcome Mr. Biden’s policy declaration in support of people in occupied Kashmir,” Ahmad declared.

“Never before we have had so many Muslims in a position of influence in a presidential campaign,” Biden said, and quoted a Hadith.

APPAC noted that it had raised $320,000 for Biden, including $120,000 from Ahmad.

Tahir Javed, a candidate endorsed by APPAC, is also listed as a Biden bundler. As is Asif Mahmood, who ran for lieutenant governor in California, raising $1 million for the race, then for state insurance commissioner, before being appointed by Newsom to the Medical Board.

Pakistan is an Islamic terror state and an enemy of the United States, which harbored Osama bin Laden. The Bin Laden raid that Biden opposed targeted a Pakistani military town.

It’s deeply troubling that Biden doesn’t seem to have learned anything from that experience.

Another Islamic lobby member in the six figure Biden fundraiser club is Wa’el Alzayat, the head of Emgage. It’s been noted that Emgage is part of a network of Muslim Brotherhood organizations, and various figures in Emgage have connections to Islamic terrorist groups.

Another Biden bundler is Amed Khan, a member of an advisory council for the International Crisis Group founded by George Soros. In an editorial for the Quincy Institute, an anti-war group funded by Soros, Khan blamed the refugee problem on America's attacks on the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and on sanctions on the narcosocialist Maduro regime in Venezuela.

Another of the bundlers on the list is Hady Amr, Obama's Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, who has co-authored articles calling for a Hamas deal.

Amr had been the founding director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. The Islamic terror state of Qatar has dominated Brookings and is a major backer of the Brotherhood and Hamas.

But the most striking bundler on the six figure list may be Mohamed Soltan.

Soltan is the son of Muslim Brotherhood cleric Salah Soltan. Salah had claimed in television appearances that people from all over the world “thirst for the blood of the Jews, and predicted, “One of these days, the U.S. will suffer more deaths than all those killed in this third Gaza holocaust. This will happen soon.”

Mohammed Soltan claimed that he was tortured by Egypt’s new government which had removed the brutal Muslim Brotherhood regime from power. While it's not certain that the Mohammed Soltan on the Biden bundler list is the same man, Soltan lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

While Soltan has denied that he’s affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, he served as president of the Muslim Student Association at Ohio State. The MSA was set up by Muslim Brotherhood members. He was also a speaker at an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) conference. The AMP has been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, a terror arm of the Brotherhood.

Soltan has posted messages praising the Brotherhood and Hamas, describing the "Ikhwan" or Brotherhood as the "school that breeds amazing freedom fighters" like a Hamas leader.

In a tweet to the IDF spokesperson, Soltan declared that the terrorists were lions that would "annihilate u Zionist pigs".

A video shows him leading the "Khaybar" chant calling for the murder of Jews.

Joe Biden had tweeted support for Soltan by name and the Islamist supporter had thanked him personally after the Obama administration helped him escape Egyptian justice.

It’s understandable why the Biden campaign didn’t want Americans seeing a list of its top bundlers until now. The list contains disturbing names, lobbyists, and figures linked to Islamic terrorist organizations and regimes from Iran to Pakistan to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The presence of so many Islamist bundlers testifies not only to their determination to buy influence in a Biden administration, but Biden’s eagerness to sell out America. These donations are the culmination of decades of Biden’s pandering to Iran, to Pakistan, and to the Muslim Brotherhood. These are the numbers in cold hard cash for which Biden is betraying America.

The bundler list shows that Biden will aid Iran, Pakistan, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Islamic terrorists will thrive and Americans, and free people around the world, will die at their hands.

The Biden campaign is funded by supporters of Islamic terrorism because it supports terror.

[lgcmanager]

MASTERCHEF LEGACY

SCHEDULE TYPE: ONE TIME GIG

following several weeks of casting with JTBC, the main PD of the show has selected 36 participants for the first season of MASTERCHEF LEGACY.

individually, trainees have been notified of their participation in the show, day of filming, place of filming and their partner. JTBC has confirmed a payment of 603,000 KRW for participation (due to split income with the company, trainees will be paid 301,500 KRW each).

last season, participants faced off against 3 other teams to try to impress the 3 judges with their dishes and teamwork after being given a curveball. here are the winners of each face offs:

Episodes 1-2: Blue Team (Ahn Dohwan x Ok Miyoung)

Episode 3-4: White Team (Kim Jinah x Kim Jinseo)

Episode 5-6: Yellow Team (Li Zimeng x Moon Sua)

this season, each team will once again participate in a two-episode challenge. they will face off against 3 or 4 other teams and try to impress the 3 judges with their dishes and teamwork in order to win. each week, the teams will have to recreat some of the hardest dessert, with just 2 minutes to study the recipe. they have 120 minutes to prepare for service, and will then have to serve a total of 10 people (including the judges).the judges will have the final say after tasting every dish.

here are the groups:

EPISODES 1-2: CHOCOLATE ECLAIRE

BLACK TEAM: AHN JAESUN x LIM SANGHYUN

BLUE TEAM: JIN EUNJI x MOON AHRA                                  

GRAY TEAM: KIM JUNGHWAN x YOON SHINHA

PURPLE TEAM: CHOI JINYOUNG x HAN ALLIE 

COPPER TEAM: CHOI SOOJIN x SON JIEUN

EPISODES 3-4: BAKED ALASKA

WHITE TEAM: KIM JINAH x PARK SARANG

GREEN TEAM: BAE DOHA x LEE YUSHIN

MAROON TEAM: MIN SOYOUN x MOON JOSHUA

SALMON TEAM: YAMASHITA ICHIKA x KANG JUN

EPISODES 5-6: CHOCOLATE SOUFFLÉ

AQUA TEAM: SEO MINSEOK x SON SEOLMI

PINK TEAM: LEE JIHO x CHOI DANIEL

RED TEAM: KIM ALEX x OH EUNHYE

YELLOW TEAM: HAN YISOL x LEE HANBYUL

EPISODES 5-6: CROQUEMBOUCHE

TEAL TEAM: SEO YUMI x HAN SEHOON

VIOLET TEAM: LEE YOUNGMIN x GONG HYEJOO

CORAL TEAM: NOH JANGMI x WON YEONWOO

CITRON TEAM: PARK HAEIN x YANG AERI

IMPORTANT: as written in the requirements, the thread has to be when the cameras ARE rolling, please do not write threads during breaks or off camera, the goal is to write about what the viewers are likely to see, whether it’s about preparation or service. before writing about any incident like fires or injuries, please communicate first with the main. lastly, it goes to say that the pantry has made available all sorts of ingredients that are very common in the countries’ cuisine to help participants in their search. since they are amateurs, they will not be judged too harshly but are still expected to try their best and take the competition seriously.

REQUIREMENTS

you have until APRIL 24, 11:59PM EST to complete the following requirements using the hashtag #lgc:masterchef.

ONE THREAD with your partner while the cameras are rolling. for every four replies  (two per mun) you’ll receive 3 VARIETY AND 2 NOTORIETY up to 9 VARIETY  AND 6 NOTORIETY.

ONE SOLO of 200+ words,  in which your character comments on their masterchef experience for 5 SKILLS TO DISTRIBUTE AS YOU WISH AND 2 NOTORIETY.

please submit the following form ONCE on the points blog before APRIL 24, 11:59PM EST.

TITLE: MUSE NAME · MASTERCHEF LEGACY – THREAD: + (#) variety, + (#) notoriety [ LINK ] – SOLO: + 5 ( skill points distribution ), +2 notoriety [ LINK ]

[tom--22--felton]

Where did this video of him and seahorse on a beach kissing come from? Is it new? Where can I watch it and where and how did you find it?

To you and all others asking the same thing.

The video was old, from December 2018 when Tom went to Doha to attend the film festival. It's a longer version of this video https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5Rvd_Hvka/ . In that video seahorse comes to Tom and pecks him on the lips. And that's it, that's the story. It was posted on this page https://www.facebook.com/Sdesertsafari but as you can see it's not there now, so please DON'T bother this person who was their guide there with any questions. I found it the same way i find all the things, by looking through tom's hashtag on all social media platforms. And no, i didn't save the video, so i don't have it.

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🇶🇦 Doha family, if you’ve had a positive experience with a professional therapist who you’d recommend without a doubt, please leave their contact info in the comments. And if you’re comfortable, also write down a bit about your positive experience with them. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ My idea is to create a stream of reliable Mental Health resources in the comments of these posts so that others in the vicinity may benefit from our collective experience. But I understand the stigmas still surrounding the issue so, if you prefer anonymity, you may also send me a DM with your recommendations :)⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #ArtidoteLifelines is an ongoing initiative here at The Artidote. It can be difficult finding a therapist — Where do you start? Who do you trust? My goal is to build a database of trustworthy, professional resources from cities all over the world; Mental Health resources that carry The Artidote community’s seal of approval 💯⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Click this hashtag: #ArtidoteLifelines. There you will find all the other cities that have already been posted.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ My wish is to be able to provide more help with this platform beyond the daily content that I already share. Sometimes I receive messages from individuals that require more support than what I can currently provide through my channels. In these situations, I’d like to have a list of resources that I can refer them to. So I need the entire global community’s support in the coming days, weeks & months as I share posts asking for recommendations for cities across the world.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Today I am asking anyone in #Doha, QATAR to send in your recommendations based on your personal experience. Any mental health resources (psychologists, psychiatrists, licensed counselors, etc.) in this city will be welcomed and appreciated by us all.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ شكرا جزيلا ❤️⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ We’re all in this together. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Let’s lift each other up 🌱⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ —@jovaferreyra⁣⁣⁣⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/B5H-jTeI5vl/?igshid=14gjhzj8vwu59

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Friday, September 10, 2021

Biden announces sweeping new vaccine rules (AP) In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans — private-sector employees as well as health care workers and federal contractors — in an all-out effort to curb the surging COVID-19 delta variant. The expansive rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be fully vaccinated. Biden is also requiring vaccination for employees of the executive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government — with no option to test out. That covers several million more workers. In addition to the vaccination requirements, Biden moved to double federal fines for airline passengers who refuse to wear masks on flights or to maintain face covering requirements on federal property in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

The CIA’s least covert mission (Politico) In the bowels of its Langley headquarters, a fluorescent-lit, mundane office space houses a team of about a dozen people engaged in what is perhaps the Central Intelligence Agency’s least covert mission: to make American citizens “like” the agency on social media. The United State’s premier intelligence agency has slowly ramped up its social media presence since joining Facebook and Twitter in 2014, creating one of the federal government’s quirkiest, creative, and controversial PR campaigns. The aim: to dispel some of the negative press and conspiracy theories that have dogged the agency over the years by showing the public that CIA staffers are just like us. The team has harnessed social media tropes and hashtags including Girl Boss-y posts touting “Women Crush Wednesday,” #KnowYourValue, pumpkin spice lattes, dog photos, #TuesdayTrivia, and a recurring “Humans of CIA” series modeled on the popular “Humans of New York” photography project that went viral just over a decade ago.

Acapulco earthquake recovery (Washington Post) Mexican workers shoveled rubble from roads and restored electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes Wednesday after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked buildings from the beach city of Acapulco to Mexico City, more than 200 miles away. The quake Tuesday, centered outside Acapulco, killed at least two people, authorities said. Most damage was minor. But the Acapulco airport was closed to commercial flights after problems were detected in the control tower, the city’s mayor said.

El Salvador’s bitcoin adoption day turned into a crash course in crypto volatility (Quartz) El Salvador became the world’s first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender today (Sept. 7). “B-day,” as locals have dubbed it, ushers in a new era in which residents of the country can buy breakfast or pay their taxes in bitcoin: All businesses and banks must now accept bitcoin in addition to the US dollar, the country’s other legal currency. But critics of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s young president, say he is putting the country’s finances at grave risk. Today’s debut made that crystal clear. Bitcoin’s price dropped by an unexpected 17% in mid-morning, wiping out $400 billion in minutes. Although the price had hovered around and just above US $50,000 over the weekend, it dropped to less than $43,000 at one point before rebounding to about $46,700 by 4 pm.

Britain prepares to force back migrant boats crossing the Channel, spurring war of words with France (Washington Post) Britain is preparing to turn back small migrant boats crossing the English Channel, according to numerous media reports, as an influx of arrivals of undocumented migrants this week sparked another war of words between London and Paris. It was unclear whether the measures included taking migrants back to French shores. Britain would only push boats back in “very certain, narrow circumstances,” an official said. The decision is likely to further strain ties between the two countries. In August, a record 828 migrants crossed the Channel in a single day. This year, 13,500 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats, more than in the whole of 2020.

Pope Francis sends 15,000 ice-creams to prisoners in Rome (Guardian) Pope Francis sent 15,000 ice-creams to prisoners to help them cool down during what has been one of the hottest summers on record in Italy. The ice-creams were delivered to Rome’s two prisons – Regina Coeli in the centre of the city and Rebibbia on the outskirts – by the Vatican’s almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. In a statement, the Vatican said the pope’s charities office “did not go on holiday” this summer. Instead, Vatican volunteers spent their time “continuing to devote themselves, among other things to two of the seven works of mercy: visiting prisoners and consoling the afflicted”. The donation was among one of several “small evangelical gestures” made during the summer “to help and give hope to thousands of people in Rome’s prisons”, the statement added.

Xi Jinping’s crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society (Washington Post) The orders have been sudden, dramatic and often baffling. Last week, “American Idol”-style competitions and shows featuring men deemed too effeminate were banned by Chinese authorities. Over the summer, China’s multibillion-dollar private education industry was decimated overnight by a ban on for-profit tutoring, while new regulations wiped more than $1 trillion from Chinese tech stocks since a peak in February. As China’s tech moguls compete to donate more to President Xi Jinping’s campaign against inequality, “Xi Jinping Thought” is taught in elementary schools, and foreign games and apps like Animal Crossing and Duolingo have been pulled from stores. A dizzying regulatory crackdown unleashed by China’s government has spared almost no sector over the past few months. This sprawling “rectification” campaign—with such disparate targets as ride-hailing services, insurance, education and even the amount of time children can spend playing video games—is redrawing the boundaries of business and society in China as Xi prepares to take on a controversial third term in 2022. The scope and velocity of the society-wide rectification has some worried China may be at the beginning of the kind of cultural and ideological upheaval that has brought the country to a standstill before.

Pro-China social media campaign expands to new countries, blames U.S. for COVID (Reuters) A misinformation campaign on social media in support of Chinese government interests has expanded to new languages and platforms, and it even tried to get people to show up to protests in the United States, researchers said on Wednesday. Experts at security company FireEye and Alphabet’s Google said the operation was identified in 2019 as running hundreds of accounts in English and Chinese aimed at discrediting the Hong Kong democracy movement. The effort has broadened its mission and spread from Twitter, Facebook and Google to thousands of handles on dozens of sites around the world. False information about COVID-19 has been a major focus. For example, accounts on social networking sites vKontakte, LiveJournal and elsewhere in Russian, German, Spanish and other languages have asserted that the novel coronavirus emerged in the United States before China and that it was developed by the U.S. military.

Japan extends virus emergency until end of September (AP) Japan announced Thursday it is extending a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other areas until the end of September as health care systems remain under severe strain, although new infections have slowed slightly. The current state of emergency, which was to end on Sunday, was issued first in Okinawa in May and gradually expanded. Despite the prolonged emergency, the largely voluntary measures have become less effective as the exhausted public increasingly ignores them.

Scores of Westerners, including Americans, fly out of Kabul (AP) An estimated 200 foreigners, including Americans, left Afghanistan on a commercial flight out of Kabul on Thursday, the first such large-scale departure since U.S. and other forces completed their frantic withdrawal over a week ago. The Qatar Airways flight to Doha marked a breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. A dayslong standoff over charter planes at another airport has left dozens of passengers stranded. A senior U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media, provided the number of Westerners on the Qatar flight and said two senior Taliban officials helped facilitate the departure—the new foreign minister and deputy prime minister. Americans, U.S. green card holders and other nationalities, including Germans, Hungarians and Canadians, were aboard, the official said. Qatari envoy Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani said another 200 passengers will leave Afghanistan on Friday.

The Taliban is bringing back its feared ministry of ‘vice’ and ‘virtue’ (Washington Post) The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, morality police roamed the streets, implementing the group’s austere interpretation of Islamic law—with harsh restrictions on women, strictly enforced prayer times and even bans on kite-flying and chess. Nearly 20 years later, the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is back. In Kabul, some people expressed fears that the return of the ministry meant that the Taliban would not seek to change. “People have stopped listening to loud music in public … fearing the past experiences from when the Taliban last ruled,” said Gul, a Kabul resident who only gave his first name due to safety concerns. “I personally didn’t see any forced prayers. But there is fear in everyone’s minds.”

UN: 18,000 Yemeni civilians killed in airstrikes since 2015 (AP) A United Nations panel said Wednesday that at least 18,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed or wounded by airstrikes since the country’s war escalated in 2015. In a report presented to the Human Rights Council, a group of experts named by the U.N. said that Yemen’s people have been subjected to some 10 airstrikes a day, a total of more than 23,000 since March 2015. The report, which cited the Yemen Data Project for the airstrike figures, found both sides in the war to have violated international law. The project, a local data gathering operation, attributes all of the airstrikes to the Saudi-led coalition. Meanwhile the coalition’s rivals, the Houthi rebels, have shelled neighborhoods, camps for the displaced, an airport and markets, leading to the deaths of dozens, according to the U.N. experts.

Nothing had better go wrong (Ars Technica) The James Webb Space Telescope, considered the single most expensive scientific instrument in the history of NASA, finally has a launch date of December 18, 2021. The project’s been delayed over the course of the decade owing to the high stakes surrounding its launch. Unfurling the 20-meter telescope—it’s the size of a tennis court but folds to 10.66 meters by 4.5 meters to fit inside the rocket—and getting it out to the LaGrange Point, a neat little bit of gravitational real estate 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth or four times the distance of the moon, is a complicated operation because there will be no way to service it when it’s all the way out there. The 50 major deployments and 178 major release mechanisms need to work perfectly, otherwise the $10 billion telescope won’t work.

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